In Maryland, lawmakers raised taxes by about $1.6 billion and cut spending by $2.3 billion to close a deficit that widened as the session progressed and federal layoffs shook the state economy. About 7% of Marylanders worked for the federal government in January, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Pluribus News
April 21, 2025
Making matters worse, the gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has been widening for nearly a half century, according to the Economic Policy Institute, with productivity growing nearly three times as much as hourly pay.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 21, 2025
“Bringing back a manufacturing job is far from a panacea for job quality in the US,” said Josh Bivens, the chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a …[paywall].
Business Insider
April 21, 2025
That’s where the final and most maddening real-world factor comes into play: your wages. In the U.S., wages have not kept up with inflation or productivity at all over the past several decades. In 2022, the Economic Policy Institute found that the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour was worth less than it had been at any point in nearly 70 years. The EPI also found in 2015 that hourly worker productivity had risen by 74 percent in the prior 40 years, while wages for hourly workers had risen by only 9 percent in that same timeframe. Contrast that to the 30 years following World War II, when wages and productivity rose at a nearly 1:1 level.
Mashable
April 21, 2025
According to a fall 2024 study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, there are 12.2% fewer school bus drivers…[paywall].
Tulsa World
April 21, 2025
Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute who researches Social Security, found that older workers’ jobs fall into, on average, 2.6 of six dangerous work categories, including physical demands and high pressure. She told BI that many older workers approaching or past retirement age have had to take blue-collar jobs that are lower-paying and riskier.
“You have slightly less dangerous jobs for older workers than for prime-age workers, but the dangers that they face are much worse,” Morrissey said.
Business Insider
April 21, 2025
In a 2020 report, the Economic Policy Institute found that part-time workers are paid nearly 20%…[paywall].
Business Insider
April 21, 2025
…child labor protections-are analyzed in a 2023 report by the Economic Policy Institute, authored by Jennifer Sherer, Deputy Director of…[paywall].
Forbes
April 21, 2025
The Source: This report is based on 2025 college town rankings published by RentCafe, which analyzed 235 U.S. towns using data from the U.S. Census, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. News & World Report, the EPA, USDA, and Economic Policy Institute.
FOX 10 Phoenix
April 21, 2025
Features interview with Lynn Rhinehart to discuss anti-union employer association letter to Trump’s AG.
The Rick Smith Show
April 21, 2025